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"Women! What do they want?" Well, they want everything now and well they should. I went to the Matrix Awards in the packed-to-the-rafters Waldorf Astoria Ballroom on Monday. I always go to this event, mainly because I was given the award back in the Dark Ages and received it, if memory serves, from the hand of the late governor of Texas, Ann Richards. So that was a long time ago and you didn't have to be such a "big deal" to get the Matrix and my boss, Helen Gurley Brown, and Hearst exec Ellen Levine, always encouraged me. But I have to say this year the Matrix was both "inspiring" and "asinine" in its boring longevity. The Matrix event is...

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"Women! What do they want?"
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I went to the Matrix Awards in the packed-to-the-rafters Waldorf Astoria Ballroom on Monday.
I always go to this event, mainly because I was given the award back...

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